Two employees of US government have been killed & four others seriously injured in a wave of rocket attacks this week against the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad. One US government employee was killed in the attack on Thursday & another died on Monday after having been hurt seriously during a rocket strike on Sunday.

An official of State Department said, “One US government employee, a US citizen, was killed in the latest round of indirect fire into the International (Green) Zone”.

There were no details on the identity of the latest victim pending notification of his or her family. The official said that he believed that the American who died on Monday, who was one of five US government employees, who were seriously injured was under contract to the US Army.